Leopold Ratzlaff

Leopold Ratzlaff (1670-) was a general of the Holy Roman Empire who was a veteran of the Ottoman-Habsburg Wars and the War of the Spanish Succession.

Biography
Ratzlaff was born in Ober-Getzenburg in the Holy Roman Empire and he became a soldier in the Austrian Army at the age of 17. He fought in the Second Battle of Mohacs and grew contempt for the Turks based on prejudices that he had been taught at a young age. In the 1697 Battle of Zenta he distinguished himself and after the end of the Ottoman-Habsburg Wars he retired. In 1704 he was made a General during the War of the Spanish Succession in the Austrian Netherlands.